ホテル海音里The Hotel Uneri on Dogo Island in the Oki Islands is the ideal place to stay if you are visiting Candle Rock on a sightseeing boat.The port from where the sightseeing boats for Candle Rock leave is just 1km from the hotel, located on the waterfront of the picturesque Fukuura Bay.The Hotel Uneri has good, fresh, local seafood and offers both Western and […]

My daughter and I have been enthusiastic and faithful viewers of this year’s NHK Taiga drama, “Sanada Maru.” We looked forward to visiting the Numata Castle ruins in Gunma Prefecture and, most of all, Ueda Castle in Nagano.At the Numata Castle ruins we had to imagine how the castle was fiercely contested and fought over. We remembered seeing Toyotomi Hideyos […]